Legion Smacks Clayton Sunday

Pro scouts watching Post 58 launched 6 home runs out of the park at tiny Riverside High School baseball field lead Coleman-Pitt to an 11-7 victory over Clayton Post 71. Collins Cuthrell hit two homers, Spencer Bell and the Berry twins Thomas and Matthew and T J Taylor all show off their strength. Matthew Berry's dinger was with the base loaded and the score tied 7-7 in the 7th inning.

Post 58 opens conference play Tuesday night at 7.00pm at famous Fleming Stadium in Wilson taking on Post 13. Post 58 is now 5-3 on the season.

If you have not heard Bruce Rhodes who has coached baseball at S W Edbecombe for 24 years has retired from coaching. The reason Bruce's small son wants him to coach him as he goes through little league and upward. There may not be a better reason than family to give up something you love.

Lauren Doughtie my cousin who is trying to make it on the Futures tour failed to make the cut again this weekend. She shot 73-78 missing the cut by one shot.

Tiger Woods had gotten rid of his coach feeling that at this time in his career he can look at film and evaluate what ever his problems might be. Tiger's biggest problem is his tee shot. All the others parts are good but if he can't stay out of the rough he can't get great scores like he is use to. He finished 19th Sunday and looked average at best.

I heard about an incident that happened this weekend. The incident is of little consequence but the ramifications tell a lot about how we are as people. A certain person got mad with someone because they didn't know the rules. How many times as fans have we argued about how a call was made but we looked stupid because we didn't know the rule.

Back in my little league coaching days there was a play where my batter hit a high hopper off the plate and beat it out for a hit. He later scored what proved to be the winning run. Taking my team over to buy drinks after the game a parent of one of the players on the other team greeted me by saying had to cheat to win. Didn't take long to make the hairs on the back of my neck stick out and I asked him what he was talking about. Your player hit that ball off the plate and that was a foul ball. I ask the parent what made it a foul ball. He said the plate is in foul territory and when it hits foul it is foul.

First thing I suggested to him was to look at the rule book which I had in my back pocket. After showing him where the plate was in fair territory and even if the ball hit foul first it was where it ended up that made it fair or foul. I gave that rule book to that parent that night and said " go home and read it. It might save you some later embarrassment by knowing the rules that you want to argue over."

He and I became close friends still to this day.